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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.

Bill Watterson

It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Inspirational Nature Stars
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice
I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Fairness Favors World
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Autopsy Bigs Mouths People
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Hobbes Thinking Wells
I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Around Circle Hobbies Know Screaming

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